RSS Aggregation - Part 1: The Partnership
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is meant to provide users with an easy way to monitor multiple sources of news, blogs, and other content which has headline-style delimitations and is updated frequentl...
Microsoft Buys Out Opera
(Insider Report) - Here comes a surprise. In a recent conversation with one of our insiders at Microsoft, the source revealed that Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, has acquired Op...
Let me explain this slowly
Rex Hammock: "Another person in my office lost all of her Apple iTunes store purchases when her PowerBook's hard drive crashed. Despite the obvious fact that Apple knows she has purchased these tunes...
My Predictions for 2006
1. Someone will do the Wikipedia version of Weblogs, Inc. and and it will fail because it never reaches critical mass. — 2. 30 of the 50 blog networks will fizzle out and/or die. Only one or two (o...
American Idol of Search - your search isnt my search
Om Malik in his blog asked the question " Will a people's collective be able to beat Google at the search game? " — The simple answer is - of course not. The better question is - "will objective se...
About the AOL announcement
The recent announcement of the AOL partnership has been the source of a lot of rumors and misconceptions. We'd like to clear some of those up. — Biased results? No way. Providing great search is t...
Symantec Says Vulnerability Hits 63 Products
The number of products is among the largest ever for a single vulnerability, and demonstrates the risk of reusing code in a large group of programs. — Symantec on Wednesday named more than 60 of its...
Microsoft to contest "unjustified" EU move
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Thursday it would contest what it called an unjustified European Commission decision to impose backdated daily fines if it fails to comply with European Union an...
Mistake #1: Overheating CPU or GPU
Anyone could have seen this one coming. With today's high performance GPUs and multi-core CPUs drawing more and more power, thermal management has become a critical element of modern systems. In the...
Customers vent spleen at Salesforce.com outage
"We're losing sales. It's a busy time of the year" — A Salesforce.com outage lasting nearly a day cut off access to critical business data for many of the company's customers on Tuesday in what app...
Predictions of a Tableteer
It's the end of the year so it's prediction time. After a bit of head scratching I think I have a few. Mine won't be as depressing as Jason Calacanis' though. — Here's what I see for 2006: — 1. ...
One in Five Blogs Is Spam
NEW YORK While 80,000 blogs may be created every day, about one in five is spam, according to new research. — Umbria Communications, a Boulder, Colo.-based consumer-generated media monitor, found th...
Attensa Public Beta Review
I just received my Attensa private beta activation for their new online RSS aggregator and jumped over to check it out. — Long story short, I'm not too impressed but I'd like to stay optimistic. I ...
VALVE UNVEILS 64-BIT SOURCE™ GAMING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED IN CONJUNCTION WITH AMD
Available Now: 64-Bit Half-Life® 2 and Lost Coast™ — Bellevue, WA. - December 22, 2005 - Valve, a leading entertainment and technology studio, unveiled a 64-bit version of its Source game engine te...
Mashup Camp: the unconference about the uncomputer
Under the questionable rubric of "Web 2.0" (see my treatise on the uncomputer), there have been a lot of events that, if you ask me, run incredibly counter to this new culture of open API provision an...
What Do President Bush, Lindsay Lohan and Star Wars Have in Common? They Topped Ask Jeeves Search Categories in 2005
Current Events and Celebrities Dominate User Searches Overall — OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Ask Jeeves, Inc. today released the list of 2005's …
Watch out with metadata in Vista, analysts warn
Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata, but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing information disclosure, Gartner analysts have war...
eDimensional Force Feedback Gaming Headset
Sound should be more than just heard. It should be felt, pulsing through your body like a grenade exploding at your six or the rumble of heavy turbulence. Your doctor will probably disagree, but wha...
Microsoft Is Losing Some Of Its Elbow Room
As Software King's Growth Slows, Rivals Stake Out Their Own Territory — Rob Enderle, a longtime Silicon Valley analyst and observer of Microsoft Corp., remembers what used to happen when a tech star...
Living with a slate
Prior to the Motion LE 1600 [1] arriving all my tablets had been convertible. I needed something with a keyboard since by and large these would all be machines that I'd have to 'work' on (code) as we...